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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 37
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 472 pages
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 2

James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 494 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...that for some few years yet I may go on trust with T,itn toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may...youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at wasto from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...poet's office, Milton went on in a prophetic mood to covenant for the production, after some years, of a work "not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flowa at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist or the trencherfury of a rhyming parasite, —...
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Selections from the prose writings of John Milton, ed. with memoir, notes ...

John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at * Assemblies of the people. GOD'S HELP FOR GOD'S WORK. 51 waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist,...
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A Manual of English Literature, and of the History of the English Language ...

George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. !N either do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward tho payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or...
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Skirmishes and Sketches

Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 468 pages
...perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine ; . . . . but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance...
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Skirmishes and Sketches

Gail Hamilton - American essays - 1865 - 461 pages
...perhaps leave something so written to after times, as they should not willingly let it die Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine ; . . . . but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may go on trust with him inward the payment of what I am now indebted ; as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth,...
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American Presbyterian and Theological Review, Volume 3; Volume 9

Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1865 - 668 pages
...and action. In speaking once of the great life-poem which he hoped ere long to begin, he says : It is a work " not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...
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Treasures from the Prose Writings of John Milton

John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader,...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapors of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...
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